Brazil have not won a World Cup since 2002. Since then, every campaign has come unstuck as soon as they come up against a European side in the knockout stages. Ancelotti is seen as the man to get them over that hurdle.

Carlo Ancelotti has been appointed as the new head coach of Brazil with the Italian head coach leaving Real Madrid at the end of the current 2024-25 season in a move that has been widely anticipated by multiple reports.